I love tradition and fanfare. Any excuse for a celebration and I’m all over it. We need these things to mark the passage of time as life rolls around too fast. And it is with this thought bouncing around firmly in my head we find ourselves in August! Seriously – August 2017. It seems like yesterday I was waking up to a new day of … Continue reading Fret not – Plants don’t hurry
This is almost more for me than you, but I love sharing my garden and I thought you’d like to see the big picture of how the garden is coming along for the season. This is the key to it all. I am running about a week behind where I normally am, but I’m not panicking much. I am getting there. The end is in … Continue reading The Big Picture – part one
Brief: Incorporate a form of glass into your image to add a layer of complexity. What a perfect excuse to photograph the greenhouse… again! We were also encouraged to experiment with how glass reacts in different situations, so anticipating my future flower crop I decided to play with one of my vases. Continue reading PHOTO DAY 17: Glass
…well maybe I’ll throw in a couple more rainbow beets as not all the colours have come out, but aside from that everything in the greenhouse is all there is going to be this season. Oh except for the beans and the corn which will be sown directly once the risk of frost has past – and I’ve weeded their beds. Oh and the successional … Continue reading Well that’s it – the last seeds have been sown.
I was VERY calm when I heard the crash. I was even calm when I saw the mess. I surprised myself as to how calm I was when I realised it was my tiny pepper seedlings that were no longer on their warm heat mat, but lying about the floor with dirt and labels and little green leaves everywhere. The fact that I passed a … Continue reading The ups and downs of gardening.
It is official, the season has begun. Woo Hooo, Hooray, YaY and all those other celebratory words that are just too difficult to spell! I squeezed some time into my busy schedule that if I waited for an opening would have happened maybe sometime in mid-November. So I decided, enough was enough with the busyness – my seeds need to come first. The first thing … Continue reading There are seeds in the soil!
Peas, peppers, pumpkins, peanuts and preparations and presents and a ‘P’eetroot. I need to apologise in advance as this is a little long but I have had a huge weekend in the garden. I now ache a little in all the usual places that hard work brings aches. I should be used to it by now, but doing a little moaning can still bring some … Continue reading This blog has been bought to you by the letter P
Last night I was too tired to even lift my fingers to the keyboard. I have been toiling frantically for two days solid. I have sore tummy muscles from all the digging (although strangely all the chubby-too-much-cake stuff is still there – I should have a decent 6 pack for all the aching going on!) My nails are chipped and the dirt has worked its … Continue reading So incredibly knackered…
… With a passion. I hate it so much. I hate its stupid flimsy aluminium frame held together with crappy bolts that don’t hold together. I hate its supposedly wonderful new generation polycarbonate panels that just crack and perish under our searingly hot UV sun. It’s such a crappy design that even the insurance company won’t insure it – even though it cost me a … Continue reading I HATE MY GREENHOUSE…
I haven’t been in the garden for ages – not since I managed to mow on the weekend. Hang on – that was only five days ago! It feels so much longer. But not being able to garden for five days in a row is a bit of a hardship for this gardener. The weekend was wonderful, sunny, warm and most importantly – not a … Continue reading The rat that drowned.
